The first private asteroid mission probe is probably lost in a deep space
It was swinging and missed for the first private attempt at an asteroid mission, but the company still surrounds it as a victory. California Startup Astroforge launches a spacecraft called Odin on February 26, but the team lost communication with it shortly after its start to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
“The chance of talking to Odin is minimal, since at this point the accuracy of his position is becoming a problem,” the company said in its vast of the mission. The technical problems have arisen at its main ground station in Australia, but Astroforge stated that other problems could also occur in Odin to prevent contact from establishing contact.
Although the start was a bust, Astrofrorge maintained the optimism of the project as a valuable experience in training for its possible purpose for creating and operating asteroid yields. The company is aimed at the asteroid 2022 OB5 in order to land on its surface and extract potentially valuable resources. Odin was built for 10 months for $ 3.5 million to complete federal space projects for money and time.
The CEO of AstrofrorGe Matt Gialich had a few quotes in Debrief, all the specimens littered, and he summarized the company’s ethos as “at the end of the day, as, you have to appear and take a picture, right? You have to try. “
This article originally appeared at Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/science/space/the-first-tersteroid-steroid-mision-is-is-s-loblow-lost-lost-sep-pace-Pace-2240375.
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